For 40

"You look great for 40!" That's what the hairdresser said to me after I talked about the bash my sweetie planned for my birthday.

I've said that very sentence when I was in my 20's. But, now that I actually AM 40 it wasn't quite the compliment I had thought it to be. It's like saying, "you don't look near what you actually are." Because, when it ain't all about looks but about health and mortality that sentence is not exactly a healing balm.

I was jokingly going to say, "you look really old for your 20's" but decided that I should act mature with someone who has scissors so close to my head. Especially now that I'm 40.